The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-07
THE STATE PRESS.
What the People Think of Democratic Pevo-
luton, Corruption and Barbarism.

OF power.
Warren Republican. Green Smith has rare
ability for bully, and he is not hiding his light
under a bushel
Bloomfield News: The people of Indiana will
not soon forget the revolutionary proceedings OF
the State Senate.
Lagrange Standard: The people elect, the
Democrats reject. The Republicans on the
side of law and order
Upton Advocates The will of the people
ought to prevail. but at the present writing
Green Smith prevails.
Laporte Herald Chronicle: The people will
sit down hard on the usurpers the next time
they get whack at them.
Union City Eagle: The situation is deplor-
able one, but is entirely due to the re, dictionary
tactics of the Democratic Senate.
Greencastle Banner: The issue involved in the
conflict now going on at Indianapolis is the right
OF the majority to peacefully rule.
Bluffton Chronicle: The hieh-banded, lawless
course of the Democrats in the Indiana Senate
should alarm every law abiding man in Indiana
KandalIyille Standard: The deadlock at In
dianapos is not party question. 1t is ques-
ton of tho rights of the people to elect their
rulers.
Wabash Plain Dealer: The Democrats alone
are responsible for the failure of the Legislature
to attend to public business promptly and thor
oughly.
Delphi Journal: As long az the insane asylums
of the State are in the hands of political bum
mers we can expect nothing else than humilia-
| ton and disgrace
I Frankfort Banner: Where a clear and undis-
| puted majority speak upon any question, and
that result is not fnality, then there is an end
| to popular government
| Martnsville Republican: Governor Gray and
| Sim Coy seem to be leading their party TO
| great Republican victory in '88. Give 'em rope
| and keep the procession moving.
Shelbyvle Republican: Jack Howard stole
| the public money at the Southern prison, and
| then used it to help eject Democrats to Office
| This seems to be case of robbing Peter to pay
| Paul.
| Lafayette Evening Call: All the ''compro-
| misses or agreements which could be made by
| Senators Representatives would not make
| Mr.. Robertson either more or less the Lieuten-
ant governor
| the Lieutenant-governor of Indiana? Is it the
| Senate or the peoplel This question answered
and the problem who shall preside over the Sen
| ate is completely solved.
| Franklin Republican: large majority of the
people, including many Democrats, believe the
| course of the majority in the Senate to be revo-
| intionary usurpation. The country will sustain
| the action of the House.
| Middletown News: Put the managementso f
| the State institutions into the hands OF
| partisan boards and better results will be had
and there will be less occasion for shame and
disgrace upon either party or the people.
| Vincennes Commercial: For the extensive ad-
| vertising that Green Smith has received the
people have had to pay about one quarter of a
million dollars But what have the Democrats
gained by thus outraging decency and justicea
Auburn Dispatch: If we have Judged the go
| Der sense of the Indiana people Alright. therell
| not be enough of these factional Democrats re-
turned to Office at the coming election to fasten
| single door against duly elected State official.
New Castle Courier: There is but way to
n tho<h
been and are being perpetrated under Demo
cratic rule in Indiana and that way is to retire
| the Democratic party permanently from the con-
| troll of State affairs.
Rensselaer, Republican: Colonel Robertson is
| by every principle Of right and justice as much
| Lieutenant governor as Grover Ceueland is
| President or Isaac Gray Governor, and the Re-
| publican majority the House should not
| cede one jot from their position.
Huntington News-Express: At the Novem-
| Der election in 1888 the people of Indiana will
| pass judgment upon the merits of the two great
parties of Indiana, and possibly we shall then
have State Senate which will hot be controlled
by revolutionists and bushwhackers.
Liberty Herad No honorable well-meaning
citizen of this State defend the Democratic
rottenness developed in the investigation of the
penal and benevolent institutions of this State,
with any more regard for decency than he could
defend deliberate, cold FLOODED murder.
Vincennes News 1t is safe to say that the
benevolent and penal institutions is due to the
investigation made last summer by the Civil
service Reform Association. The people there
fore owe that organization vote of thanks.
New Castle Crescent: Judge Roberts, Repre-
sentative from Dearborn county, expressed the
true idea to dot in speaking of the imbroelio
over the lieutenant governorship. He eaid that
"all doubts should be thrown in favor of the
people acting in their sovereign capacity at the
ballot-box
| No ri
Indiana who make constitutions, and courts and
governors decided the question last fall. and to
a wise man or discreet political party their de-
cision should have settled the question:; but
| Green Smith Is not a wise man, and the party al
his back never had any discretion.
Thorntown Argus: If Green Smith, Sim Coy
and the rest of that gang Of revolutionists at
Indianapolis had, at any time between 1866
lutionary measures which they are now carrying
on, every last one of them would have been
planted long before the space of fifty days had
rolled around.
Logansport journal: The State treasury is
empty and its income less than it's outgo withou,
an increase Of taxation and yet the people oil
the State will be compelled to pay for the serv
ices of standing army of DULLES and black
guards, employed to support and maintain one
| of the most criminal and revolutionary usnrpa
tons ever recorded in the history of free govern
| ment.
Columbus Republican,: Those who claim that
the Democratic party are united in its supper,
of the Senate in its revolutionary effort to sub
sttute its will for that of the people should read
the resolution and remarks of Judge Roberts
and Representative Bertram of John B. Stoll
the South Bend Times, New Albany Public
| Press and hundreds of other honest Democrats
of less note.
Richmond Palladium: The illegal course pur
sued by Green Smith and his supporters ha.
not only brought disgrace and heavy loss to the
State. but it has defeated the main purpose TO
which it was adopted-beneft to the Democratic
party. 1t has probably defeated Turpie's cleo
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